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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS NEW ADVERTISEMENTS The Baily Press

THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS OF HONG KÙNG.

Members are requested to at. tend the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING in the rooms of the Institution on Friday, April 5th, at 6.00 P.M.

G.

the

PUBLIC AUCTION

PARTICULARS AND CON. DITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, the 8th day of April, 1940, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor P. I. NEWMAN,

of one lot of Crown Land ·on Hon. Secretary. Boundary Street, Ma Tau Wei, 194 in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, commenc ing from 1st July, 1898, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING. for one further term of 24 years less, the last three days thereof.

AUCTION

The following confiscated clocks will be sold by Public Auction on Tuesday, the 9th April, 1940, at 11.30 AM at the Imports & Exports Office, "Fire Brigade Building, 2nd floor: 3 large clocks

55 small clocks

83 medium clocks.

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`Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dis posal of the lot the Purchaser (If not the applicant) will be

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HONGKONG, APRIL 3, 1940

THE COLONY'S FINANCES AND TAXATION

TH

GOVERNMENT. GÅ-

ZETTE notification last week of what has been gen- erally accepted as an indica- tion of the sound financial position of this Colony at the end of last year, appears to have given rise to feelings of undue optimism, particular- required to deposit with any at a time when the Gov- authorised officer who will beernment, both in Hongkong, present at the sale, the sum of and at Home, have repeatedly two hundred dollars, ($200) lamade it clear that even grea- cash. This sum will be refunded ter sacrifices by the peoples of on payment of the Purchase the British Empire will be- come necessary for a success- ful prosecution of the war. 191 PARTICULARS OF THE LOT Antagonists of the local ad-

E. W. HAMILTON, Süpt. of Imports & Exports. 3rd April, 1940.

price.

THE HONG KONG FIRE

INSURANCE CO., LIMITED.

Notice to Shareholders

The Seventy first Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders. will be held at the Offices of the undersigned on Thursday, the 4th April, 1940, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers, together with a statement of Accounts for the year ended the 31st Decem. ber, 1939,

The Share Register and Trans. fer Books will be closed trom the 21st March, to the 4th April,. 1940, both days inclusive.

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.

General Managers,

No. of Sale,

"New Kowloon Iland Registry No. | Lot No. 2782.

Junction of Boundary Street

and

College Road.

Locality.

Boundary

Measure

ments

12

As per

sale plan

#

.

About

16,000

134

*

Contents in

Square feet.

Annual

Rental

N. JACOBSON & CO. Amsterdam

shippers of

Chemicals, Fertilizers, Metals and Hardware.

Agents in China wanted,

ARRIVALS BY CLIPPER

EDITORIAL

of the Royal Engineers, LIEUT, A. J. LE SEELLEU R, winner of the Governor's Prize at the Bisley meeting of the Hongkong Rifle Association, photographed with the tra phies he won which includes an autographed picture of His Excellency the Governor.

"TONY DRAWS A

HORSE"

Costly Car Ride For Indians

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3. 1940.

Work Of Christian Missions In Occupied Parts Of China Going Back To The Primitive

The work of Christian missions in the occupied parts of Chloa. is going back to the primitive, and the work being done at present resembles very much that of the first Christian missionaries in China, stated Mr. Charles Higgins,of the American Episcopal Mission, in a talk, before the annual meeting of St. Andrew's Branch of the Victoria Diocesan Missionary Association, on the "Progress of the Church in China under wartime conditions."

Much of the routine work in the

į various missions has been thrown.

PRISON MURDER back upon the foreign mission-

HEARING

aries, and it is not unusual "for a single missionary to have to .com- 'duct divechurch services in one day and in localities at a distance

Accused Committed from one another.

To Sessions

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In the city of Wuchang, which normally supports a population of

"I will kill you never mind it more than 1,000,000, there are now I have to be hanged for it." about 35,000 people, on a conserva- This statement was alleged to live estimate, Mr. Higgins said, and have been made, by a long-term they were Anding it so difficult to convict, Li Shek-man, allag Land shelter that very nearly all Tok, allas Man Kal-taal, who is were being housed in the various accused of the murder of a fellow- mission compounds in the city. Loot- prisoner. Lau Chuen, in the Hong-ng was so prevalent" that every kong Prison on Feb. 4.

loose piece of wood is gone, and The preliminary hearing con- some buildings partially demolish- cluded at the Central Court yes-ed and the bricks that had gone terday when Li was committed by into the construction of them Mr, T. J. Houston to the Criminal taken away. Bessions...

Speaking before the meeting. fe Lau Chuen wis alleged to have Rev J. R Higgs, Vicar of St. An- "i been stabbed a day prior to his drew's Church, sald that the release. He died in the Queen Church could not be proud of the Mary Hospital on Mar. 9.

way in which by was supporting Mr. E. H. Williams, Crown Cour-the Missions. St. Andrew's has a ael conducted the prosecution. membership of some 200 to 300, of assisted by Det, Insp. L. R. Whant. whom only 50 to 60 were support-

Det. Insp. A. E. Carey, in evid- ing St. Andrew's branch of the V... Fides totaling $150

ence, told the Court that on March D. M."A posed at Kowloon Court by Mr.

11, be identified the body of Lao

OFFICERS ELECTED E. Himsworth yesterday on Bhac

Chuen, with whom he had had Officers elected for this year Singh, 21. of Marsden and Com-

certain Police dealings...

were Dr. K. H. Uttley, Hon. Secre- The AD.C. are putting on the pany, who was charged with hav

The stabbing was then described, tary; Mr. Hunt, Hon. Treasurer; showin aid of the British War ng driven private car. No. 8321 in by Assistant Wander Feroz Din Miss L West, Asst. Secretary; Mrs. Organisation - Fund, HIS Excel-a dangerous

manner in Prince who said that on the morning of JF. Robinson. Mr. R. Baldwin, lency the Governor. Sir Geoffry Edward Road on March 23: tailing Feb. 4. the prisoners were per- Mrs. Bird, Cpl. Webb, Miss Gibbons is CONCLUSION ..THE

Northecte, and Lady Northcote, to report an accident; and having mitted to take their usual exer- Committee Members. A represen- natural one. Business circles

have signified their intention of driven the car without the owner's cise. The recreation ended attative of the Fellowship of Youth,

Permission. are already beginning to feel

10.50 am. and the prisoners were and also Miss Pope, are to be co- Gurbachan 193 the effects of the war in Eattending tonight's performance.

Singh, 20, private marched back to their respective opted on the Committee. rope: Rising costs in freight,

watchman, accused of having cells. Ten prisoners went in to insurance" and the other

alded and abetted Bhac Singh.ward No. 1, and waited to enter

third defen- the .cells.

Upset Price.

ministration's war taxation proposals have lost no time in seizing upon the published figure of a surplus of $3,528,- 935 as furnishing positive proof in support of their con- tention that the proposed taxation is much too im- moderate and that the busi- ness houses of Hongkong will have to bear a really severe burden.

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"Tony Draws A Horse," which will be presented by the Hong- kong Amateur Dramatic Club at the China Fleet Club Theatre to- night. promises to draw a capa- city crowd, from what was seen of the play at the Dress Rehear sal last night.

were im-

Chinese m thi

"SOMETHING IN HAND” "As I was walking, along ward

No. 1. I saw a prisoner going towards

Foreign Planes Over Belgium

items connected with com- due more to circumstances. was fined $40. A mercial transactions are cut-The Kowloon-Canton Railway dant, Gurdayal Singh. ; un- ting...

profits down

to

a profit, for instance, was not censed watchman charged with minimum and as the demand due to increased business, but having given false information

cell No. 78. continued witness. BRUSSELS, Apr. 2 (Reuter) for raw materials for war pur- to a heavy reduction in costs the police by saying that he was

detained by four poses grows heavier, prospects since activity was affected by East Asia Garage while the car

"He was third in the file. He went There are reports that foreign off in a quick movement. of pushing forward remunera- the Sino-Japanese hostilities. was driven away, was fined $50.

It ap-planes were over Belgium yester- peared to me that he had some-day, afternoon and this morning. tive deals have begun to Again, the proft on licences A fourth defendant, Gurdial | thing which looked like tron in seven being. Identified as German. diminish. Cannot, therefore, and internal revenue was a Singh, 20, who was detained in his hand. He stood at the "en- and one as British. the Government modify its direct result of the recent hospital after the accident, and trance of No, 78 cell and raised The Belgian Ambassadors in war taxation plan, they ask, demand for land for building who was subsequently charged his hand in a stabbing movement. Berlin and London have been in- seeing that there is every purposes to relieve the conges also with alding and abetting the The door of the cell was opened, structed to make energetic pro- Arrivals at Kal Tak by the Pan- reason to believe that the tion in the Colony caused by first defendant, was fined $40. "I at once rushed towards him American Airways'

Philippine Colony's finances, are sound an increased population. This

and held him by the collar as Clipper, yesterday were Messrs.

be raised his right hand again. Hong Kong, 14th March, 1940. Willam Pawley. Phillip Matthews, enough to bear any additional demand for land appears to

Then I saw something like a knife. Arnold. Lewis McCarty calls on it from the mother. be continuing and it would be!

I threw him on the ground and, and John Sinclair, all of the In-country? tér-Continent Corp., Honolulu,

as he fell, he threw the piece of

here on business.

iron.

"I then saw a prisoner Inside the cell, He was standing near the door, bending forward, with

Witness further said that when'

The Hong Kong Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.

R.

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PUBLIC AUCTION.

149

PARTICULARS AND CON DITIONS of the Sale by Publik Auction to be held on Monday, the 8th day of April, 1940, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at

Ma Tau Chung, in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of 75 years,

Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the dis posal of the lot the Purchaser

George

Mr. George Sellett, legal coun- sel for the Corporation, was an- other arrival, from Manila.

Other passengers from Manila were Mr. and Mrs. Robert Angle, Mr.

Fernando Lara Refr, Major 'and' Charles A. Mize.

Corby.

Master Grant

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Mrs.

kong in the Operations Depart- ment of Pan-American Airways.

PASSENGERS

THE QUERY can hardly be regarded as log'cal. The lar- gest increases in the Colony's the current expenditure in

well for the Government to Welcome For

this

create a Sinking Fund to which revenue from source might be apportioned. These two sources alone con-

Soong Sisters

year will be under the head of /tributed over Afty per cent.chinese women's organisations his band holding his chest."

Defence-a vast sum of money

CHUNGKING, Apr. 2(Reuter) towards the surplus announ- here are planning a meeting to

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kong would be drawn into the hostilities.

DURING THE LAST QUAR- Sir James Reid Kay and Lady TER of 1939, when the war in Kay were arrivals in the Colony Europe had only been in pro- yesterday from Bombay aboard gress for a matter of three an Italian liner.

months, defence expenditure Other arrivals from Bombay claimed a big slice of the were Mr. and Mrs. H. Lourenz, Mr. C. Vari Langeberg; from Sin- Colony's revenue. With in (if not the applicant), will be gapore, Mr. H. J. Rohrbach, Mr. Creased activity on the main required to deposit with an authorised officer who will be and Mrs. G. Apacible, Mrs. C. B. Colony loyally bound to con-mercial houses in the Colony F. D. Pope; from Manila, Mr. war front imminent and this present at the sale, the sum of Hart, Miss Caroline B. Hart and tribute its full share to the two hundred dollars, ($200) in Miss Isabel Hart, Mr. and Mrs. 3. Allied cause, any idea that the cash."This sum will be refunded M. Bayot and children, Mr. C. Government in Hongkong ductive working, those at the

tests.

CHILDREN'S DAY

CELEBRATIONS.

Some 350 children, chosen from thousands of children of the Kowloon Schools, will take part in the Children's Day celebra- tton at the Chinese Y. M. C. A.. Waterloo Road, at noon tomorrow. There will be an exhibition of

sketches,embroideries, essays, and scrolls.

heard the accused, addressing the deceased, say:

"I will kill you never mind if I have to be hanged the celebration on Thursday noon The public is invited to attend for it."

and the exhibition, the latter will ACCUSED'S DENIAL

be opened until Saturday

even- The

the defendant making

ing. statement in such a form when Mr. T. V. Soong, Chairman of he cross-examined the witness.

a dinner addressed to himself and was: "1

de will have to be expended in ced in the Government noti- welcome the three Soong sisters he" was holding the accused, he thousand pieces of paintings,

order to bring the defences of cation and cannot be con- who arrived from Hongkong two Mr. Grant the Colony up to date to meet sidered as items of revenue days ago.

which are likely to continue Madame Sun Yat-sen, who is by, jr., Miss Annette Corby, Miss during the coming months. Cor any emergency that crop up

Indefinitely in the years visiting the wartime capital for Phyllis Reed, Mr. Willard L Hart And in

ahead.

the first time, is staying with this connexion, it

Madame H. H. Kung, her elder and Mr. Jack C. Bonamy.

would be imprudent not to THERE IS A CASE; how-

sister. Mr. Bonamy is Airport Mana- keep in mind the words of one ever, for some leavening of ger for Pan-American Airways, of the Colony's military au- the taxation burden as out the Board of Directors of the He said that his statement was and will be stationed in Hong-thorities recently that there lined in the proposals recent Bank of China.

REPRIEVE FOR

gave was no saying when Hong-ly enunciated and adopted last night in honour of his three

ECKFORD had fought with the informer on by the Government, at least sisters.

CHUNGKING, April 2 (Reuter many occasions and it darling thisThe British Ambassador, Bir Ar- with the object of encouraging In an "interview, Madame occasion he was killed, it would chibald Clark-Kerr, has “decided capital to remain in the Chiang Kai-shek expressed grati-be my business if I would get to reprieve James Eckford, Colony. This leavening should fication at the arrival of her two hanged."

private in-the-Seaforth High- unpatriotic, but merely as a would remain in Chungking and not be summarily classed as sisters and hoped that they Det.-Insp.Whant gave evidence landers, who is under sentence of the Investigations, while the of death for the murder of a gesture of goodwill and an un- continue to work among Chinese dying deposition taken from the comrade; in 'Shanghai

with the deceased was produced in Court The sentence has been commut derstanding of the straitened women in connexion circumstances which trading present war of resistance. « by Mr. D. H. C. Taylor, Chiefed to life imprisonment with circles in Hongkong are now

Clerk at the Magistracy,

hard labour A statement made by the de- The reprieve follows the present- facing as a result of the war.

fendant, when charged with the ing of a petition to the "Ambas- While most of the big com- ONLY CHUNGKING

murder of Lau Chuen was read| sador", by British and American have, according to their re-

IS-RECOGNISED

in Court.

"residents in Shanghai, ports for last year, shown pro- LONDON. Apr. 2 (Havas)-The British Government has repeated- on payment of the Purchase Ledesma, Mr. A, E. Hughes. Mr. aims to make money out of helm of these concerns have y proclaimed that the only Chi- F. A. Abraham, Mr. and Mrs. I the taxpayers by unreasonable sounded a note of warning in ese Government Britain recog- L Lumnia, Misses Eva and Phyllis demands must necessarlly be

nizes is the Chungking Govern- completely dispelled. A sur-

connexion, with prospects for

ment, and does not feel that it is the future and many of them An arrival from Port Said was Plus of over. $3,500,000 will have wisely increased their of Wang's Government, to re- necessary, following the formation prove a mere bagatelle when reserves to cope with difficult arm the position, which is un- Mr. E. C. Larke: from Genoa,

it comes to lending monetary times. The Government will changed, authorised circles de- Mrs. E. F. Forbes, Miss D. 81, C. Forbes, Mr. and Mrs, K. Molland, support to Britain's war Mrs. M. De Vos, Mr. E. De Vos, efforts, however. much the be the first to admit the ad-clare, Mr. W. De Vos; from Naples, Mr. Colony's revenue may remain cautions for the future and. with the greatest care the devel

visability of thrift and pre- Naturally, Britain. is observing F. De La Vina; from Colombo, unchanged or even show an in the circumstances, should lopment of the situation Mr. E. G. Hozwood, Mr. W..B. increase.. Beadle, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. W.

do its best to mitigate the watching Wang's eventual pro- A PERUSAL of the figures conditions under which it gress in extending his power over Paget, Miss Margaret Paget."

published in the Gazette notl makes its calls on the public, the area under Japanese control: fication shows that the in-

always keeping in view the the attitude creases in revenue, where they

ernment; and whether Wang's occurred; were not, to any high sense of unfailing devo- population towards the new Gov-- large extent, the result of tion and loyalty which this actions are dependent or not on planned economy or a boom in Empire post bears to the the Japanese Government or the the avenues of Government Mother Country in its war Japanese military administration Income. The Increases were aims,

price.

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PARTICULARS OF THE LOT Dyer, Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Knight

No. of Sale:

Registry No

þ

Locality.

Junction of Ma Tau Chung

Kowloon Inland Lot

Road, Mau Tau Chung.

Road and Ma Tau Kok

229, 4239.

Boundary.

Measure-

ments,

As par

Bale plan.

Contenta in

Square feet

TOM A

About

3,720

Annust

Rental.

Upsat PriceS

33

$

062'%

and Mrs. E. N. Bragado.

Summoned before Mr, Q. A. A. Macfadyen at Kowloon Court

yesterday for driving without due care and caution in Prince Ed ward Road near Leven Road on March 10, W. Kalley, of Grampian

192 Foad, was fined $29.

.

In China.

and

of the Chinese

"Mr. and Mrs. James L.. A. Worton after their marriage at the Registry on Saturday. The bride was formerly Miss An Sal-ying."